Fujispray HVLP

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Mad, see it you can get some spray gun cleaner. It seems a bit more mild, but still does the job, than thinners. Thinners may take the gloss/surface off the floor. Don't ask me how I know this :blush:

And the sooner you do it the easier it will come off the floor.

Maybe just some cutting compound and a wool pad on the floor with your polisher but then you may make the floor shinier where you work it than the balance.

First world problems.

[NY65912]

Check out this video from Paint Society, painting with a HVLP turbine set up.

I've done primer and Featherfill with one, never painted a car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWEQpEhQFE&t=751s

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by madcorgi

I was surprised at how much overspray the system had, and how well it adhered to other surfaces. My garage floor has a white haze on it that I'll probably have to scrub off with thinner if I want to get it back to looking new. Never had that problem when shooting lacquer back in the day.

Of course not. Lacquer is a different paint altogether. Anything that didn't stick as you were wetting out dried enough within a few feet in the air being atomized as it was. It was a fine mist. Enamels are heavier, don't atomize quite the same (especially with a true HVLP) and act differently during the flow out. That same action allowing the paint to level out is the same that keeps the overspray sticky (for lack of a better word).

I can't imagine what you expected painting a car in the middle of a room if you didn't expect paint everywhere within a certain distance. The floor being the closest and with gravity, it's sure to get a lot of paint. I know this from experience.

What might even seem worse is to cover the area beneath the car 10 feet in each direction only to pull up the coverings and see a huge rectangle in the middle of the floor. I know this too from experience.

Spray painting is a bloody mess. When you want to paint everything in sight like the interior of a home, it's the way to go once the areas not to be painted are covered or masked. Outside it's anyone's guess until you're done and find out how many cars you've gotten overspray on. I know that's a different ball game but when I was painting exteriors for a living, I put the spray gun away by 10 am.

Spray painting equipment manufacturers have been working this problem since the spray gun was invented. They've come a loooong way, but the result has been limited to more paint transferred to the intended surface and less waste. That's about the size of it.

[stealthn]

So no one is going to comment on the garage?

Wow I wish I had that much space!

[edgemar]

Plenty of room for a lift.

[madcorgi]

Different thread: https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1063213-garage-done.html

Zeke, it sounds like you learn from experience the same way as I do! As I said, I expected less overspray than I got, based on my experience with lacquer. I claim no expertise in painting.